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Notice of Privacy Practices

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed.

We recognize our responsibility for safeguarding the privacy of your health information. This notice describes your rights and our obligations for using your health information and informs you about laws that provide special protections for your health information. It also explains how your personal health information is used and how, under certain very special circumstances, it may be disclosed to those who need to access it. It tells you how any changes in this notice will be made available to you.

Understanding what is in your record and how your health information is used helps you to:

Decide how best to contact you (for example, by phone, e-mailing, or sending you a letter) to inform you about diagnostic results and to advise you about other health-related benefits and services.

Personal Health Information Use

Each time you visit the Health and Wellness Center, a record of your visit is made. This record contains documentation of your symptoms, examination and test results, diagnoses, treatment, and a plan for future care or treatment. This information, often called your health or medical record, serves as a:

Means of communication among the health professionals who contribute to your care

Legal record describing the care you received

Source of information for public health officials

Source of data for facility planning

Tool with which we can monitor, evaluate and continually work to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve; and

Source of information that we may disclose to researchers when their research proposal has been approved by an Institutional Review Board and with established protocols to ensure the privacy of your health information.

Health and Wellness Center Responsibilities

We are required to:

Maintain the privacy of your health information

Provide you with a notice as to our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain about you

Abide by the terms of this notice

Notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction

Accommodate reasonable request you may have to communicate health information by alternative means or at alternative locations

We reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all protected health information we maintain. Should our information practices change, we will advise you in advance. We will not use or disclose your health information without your authorization, except as described in the notice.

Use and Disclosure Without Your Authorization

The law allows or requires us to use and disclose your health information without your authorization for a number of purposes designed to enhance health care services, protect patient safety, public health, and to ensure that our facilities and practitioner comply with government and accreditation standards. For example, we may provide health information to:

Other health care providers such as physicians, nurses, and therapists for purposes of referral or treatment;

Public Health authorities with information on communicable diseases and vital records;